4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat2/rmdir.0

RMDIR(2)                                                              RMDIR(2)


NAME
       rmdir - remove a directory file

SYNOPSIS
       rmdir(path)
       char *path;

DESCRIPTION
       Rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path.  The direc‐
       tory must not have any entries other than “.” and “..”.

RETURN VALUE
       A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned  and
       an error code is stored in the global location errno.

ERRORS
       The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are true:

       [ENOTDIR]      A component of the path is not a directory.

       [EINVAL]       The pathname contains a character  with  the  high-order
                      bit set.

       [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
                      entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

       [ENOENT]       The named directory does not exist.

       [ELOOP]        Too many symbolic links were encountered in  translating
                      the pathname.

       [ENOTEMPTY]    The  named directory contains files other than ‘‘.’’ and
                      ‘‘..’’ in it.

       [EACCES]       Search permission is denied for a component of the  path
                      prefix.

       [EACCES]       Write  permission  is denied on the directory containing
                      the link to be removed.

       [EPERM]        The directory containing the directory to be removed  is
                      marked  sticky, and neither the containing directory nor
                      the directory to be removed are owned by  the  effective
                      user ID.

       [EBUSY]        The  directory  to  be  removed is the mount point for a
                      mounted file system.

       [EIO]          An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
                      or deallocating the inode.

       [EROFS]        The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only
                      file system.

       [EFAULT]       Path points  outside  the  process’s  allocated  address
                      space.

SEE ALSO
       mkdir(2), unlink(2)


4.2 Berkeley Distribution       August 26, 1985                       RMDIR(2)